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Volunteering at Bradgate Park, Leicester At the end of March, we were invited by our friends at Zellar to one of their first Zellar Together days to volunteer at Bradgate Park in Leicestershire, as part of their wonderful climate action initiative. It was a lovely experience, that just so happened to take place on one of the first sunny days of the year. It was also great to meet and speak with the other local businesses taking part. Bradgate Park is a beautiful 850 acre park in Charnwood Forest, with a long history as a medieval deer park. It also contains the atmospheric ruins of the ancestral...

The Vanishing Half  by Brit Bennett I bought this book because one of my customers listed it as one of her favourites…and now it’s one of mine too! A story about identical twins Stella & Desiree, growing up in a small Southern black community, who run away when they’re 16. Years later Desiree is back, with her black daughter, living the life she escaped whilst Stella is secretly passing herself off as a white woman…to which her husband and daughter are none the wiser. The story is very well-written and sensitively deals with an array of topics…race, prejudice, poverty and...

This April we decided to take a trip down memory lane, inspired by book about '100 Essential Children's Books' which started some gorgeous conversations about our childhood reading memories. What books we loved, where we read, our trips to the library and the school book fair. 

February flew by for all of us. Yes, it's the shortest month of the year, but is the world spinning faster? Time definitely seemed to have sped up. As usual we've still found a little time for reading, whether on the bus to work, nursing a coffee at the weekend or curled up under the blankets at night, there are always a few stolen moments to spend with a book if you're keen.  As it's International Women's Day at the beginning of March, we've decided to highlight some of the books by women we've been particularly enjoying recently. What have...